$14,950
Audemars Piguet, Brassus & Genève, No. 48797, Ref. 1961. Produced in the 1940s. Very fine, thin, keyless, astronomic, 18K yellow gold dress watch with perpetual calendar. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, rounded bezel. Matte silver with applied yellow gold Arabicnumerals, outer minute divisions, 4 subsidiary sunk dials for the days of the week, the date, the months of the leap year cycle and subsidiary seconds concentric with the aperture for the moon phases. Yellow gold "bâton" hands. Cal. 17’’’, rhodium plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 19 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, flat balance-spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 47 mm. Notes Audemars Piguet, Le Brassus and Geneva. Founded in 1875 by two watchmakers, Jules Audemars and Edward Piguet, aged 24 and 22, under the name "Audemars Piguet, Manufacture d’Horlogerie". Jules Audemars was born in Le Brassus in 1851, where he was trained as a watchmaker by master watchmakers of the area. After his apprenticeship, Audemars worked as a "repasseur", settling in 1874 in Gimel and opening a small business next to his workshop. He did not obtain the success he was hoping for, probably due to the recession which was then beginning, and, 18 months later, he decided to return to Le Brassus, looking for a new situation more in keeping with his exceptional watchmaking skill. Edward Auguste Piguet, born two years after Jules Audemars, received a similar education. Pi
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-09-22
